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Missouri compromise
- An agreement put forth by henry clay for
- Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine to enter the union as a free state.
36' 30' line

Mexican American War
Compromise of 1850
- Serves of 5 bills to save off sectional disputes
- CA is free state
- NM an UT popular sovereignty
- Fugitive Slave Act**
- TX cede lands to Mexico
- Slave trade abolished in DC
Fugitive Slave Act
- Stipend from the government
- People sold into slavery even after free
- Positive thing for the South
Kansas Nebraska Act
- KS and NB could decide whether they would
- allowed slavery in their state
- Repealed MO compromise
- Senator Stephen Douglas
- Border ruffians come in to help decide the outcome of the state votes for free or slave
Slavery continued past the date in the constitution because:
- cotton gin
- industrial revolution
- continuation of slavery passed in 1807-1808
- Westward expansion
Status of Blacks after 1812
- slaves decide to support the brits
- 2 all black units in NY
- Navy was the only branch that blacks could serve in
- brits just made the slaves that fought with england during war of 1812 slaves again even though they promised freedom
What percentage of the south owned slaves?

25%
What were the two types of slaves on a plantation:
- House servants
- field hands
Ways that slaves rebelled:
- played stupid
- self mutilation
- destruction of farm tools
- sambo image
- runaway
- learning--knowledge is power!
- suicide
- murder master
Abolitionist movement before 1831
- fad
- not large scale
- only 2% of New england were abolitionists
Why did the urgency abolitionist message change after 1831:
- nat turner rebellion
- abolitionist literature
Freedom's Journal
- Cornish and Rosserm
- early literature
- both african american
Walker's Appeal

uses parts of the constitution to make arguement against slavery
Fredrick Douglas
- powerful speaker
- comes to the north
- The North Star
William Lloyd Garrison
- people are more persuaded by him since he's white
- published The Liberator
- Creates the American-Anti-Slavery Society
Stages of the Abolitionist Movement
- Passive
- Action
- Violence
Passive Abolitionist Movement?

literature
David Ruggles
- From norwich
- helped 600 slaves escape
- out of new york
Calvin Fairbanks
- White
- Went to Jail
John Brown
- harpers ferry
- bleeding kansas border ruffian
Causes of the Civil War
- Sectionalism: belief that one part of the US was more important than the other
- Expansion of slavery in the West: disturbed the balance
- Slavery: underlying factor but the explicit reason for the war
Why didn't Lincoln want to free the slaves immediately?
- didn't want the north thinking that the only reason for fighting was for slavery--he would lose their support
- afraid that if he let the slaves go then he would have to care for them
- job competition
Fremont

tried to emancipate the slaves without Lincoln permission during the civil war
Butler
- confiscated the slaves from the south they are "contraband of war"
- he wasn't freeing slaves technically
Confiscation Act
- First One: any slaves that aided the south were free
- Only act during the civil war that explicitly freed the slaves
3 reasons why lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation:
- wants to throw the south into a state of turmoil
- he needs a new rallying cry in order to keep up the dying support to keep the union together
- keep england out of the war
emancipation proclamation and Britian
- There was a naval blockade in the south by the north
- The brits wanted to break the blockade in order to trade with the south.
- The brits had freed their slaves. If they wanted
- to join the south then everyone would look at the brits and say “they support the slaves!”

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